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Watching the person in the mirror's countenance pale and grow haggard,
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Examining love together with regret, both new and old.
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Keeping watch still by a lantern though it is daybreak, drenched with tears,
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Watching others meet as promised, as twilight falls.
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Story of Yanxi Palace
Episode 22
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Yingluo, my heart almost jumped out of my chest earlier.
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What's really going on here?
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These past days, it's a trend in the palace to do dressing up games.
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It has come to the point that everyone is doing it.
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Today, Your Highness accompanied Empress Dowager to tour the garden and a matter like this has just to happen.
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Mingyu blocked Zhilan so I was able to arrive before her.
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I discovered that this palace maid has already fallen and died.
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But her make-up was so flashy, and I heard the other two upstairs
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whispering about Her Highness Empress.
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I then boldly guessed that this must be related to the dressing-up games.
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More importantly, Zhilan was so proactive.
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I can't help but to suspect Noble Consort Gao is the one behind this.
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Hence, you beat her to it and dragged her down first?
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What's the story behind the greasepaint in the face of this palace maid then?
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It's not greasepaint.
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Just the juice of berry and garden balsamine.
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Good thing that palace maid's face was full of blood after she fell.
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Others will also not look at it in detail. As long as we insist
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that she's playing an opera character, we can then bluff our way out of this.
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The dressing up trend here in the palace
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has led to the death of a palace maid today.
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The dressing up matter started with Changchun Palace.
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Empress Dowager will surely blame Her Highness Empress for it.
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Wait. I'm a bit confused.
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How did Noble Consort know that the palace maid will fall
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and especially lured Empress Dowager to look at it?
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No person in this world can predict things.
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Those three are sweepers of Yanhui Pavilion to begin with.
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They surely know about this area very well.
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How could one just fall so suddenly?
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Also, after it happened, they were dilly-dallying upstairs.
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It's the same when they came down. They didn't show any grief.
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Is that normal?
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Hence, they were not really playing around.
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They've planned this a long time and directly just pushed that person down.
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What you mean is Noble Consort Gao used the life of a person to frame Her Highness Empress?
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Not only Noble Consort Gao,
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Noble Lady Shu is also involved.
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Yingluo, you finally did something right.
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If they have successfully framed Her Highness, our Changchun Palace would be in big trouble.
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Stop saying it.
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After such a huge thing happened,
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are you still harboring thoughts of getting by by a fluke?
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Was I too tolerant with you two?
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Your Highness, slow down.
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What's wrong with Her Highness Empress?
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We clearly have successfully gotten through it, but how come she's mad instead?
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Could I have done something wrong?
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Stop breaking it apart! What are you doing?!
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Stop destroying it!
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Don't throw it!
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Your Highness! Your Highness!
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- They start demolishing it upon coming here. I couldn't stop them!
- Move quickly.
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- Don't demolish it! Don't demolish my opera stage!
- Your Highness, be careful.
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I'm ordering you to stop! Stop!
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How dare you, servants! Do you know what place this is? You dare to act atrociously here?!
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May Your Highness Noble Consort forgive us. This is the order of Empress Dowager.
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Empress Dowager's decree?
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I'm ordering you to stop demolishing! You all stop! Stop, you hear me?!
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- That one, demolish them all.
- Quickly stop!
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- Stop!
- And those, burn them all.
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Your Highness Noble Consort.
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Your Highness, all those are your most favorite opera costumes and opera scripts.
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Sorry. Empress Dowager gave orders
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that the inner palace consorts of Qing Empire should be reserved, prudent,
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able, and virtuous. Applying make-up all day to seduce the emperor
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is really improper.
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Just to make you concentrate on more appropriate matters,
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all these opera costumes can't be allowed to stay. Burn them.
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Momo Liu, these opera dresses are the favorite of Her Highness.
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It's too pitiful to just burn them like this.
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Can't you ask for leniency from Empress Dowager?
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Your Highness Noble Consort, don't blame me for not warning you.
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As a noble consort, you should obey the etiquette of the royal family.
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Become a model here in the palace.
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If anyone would be allowed to do just as she wishes, doesn't know to restrain oneself,
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ruining the tone here in the Forbidden Palace,
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Empress Dowager will not spare her.
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Gugu Liu!
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Continue burning!
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Your Highness! Your Highness!
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Your Highness Noble Consort, what are you doing?
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Gugu Liu...
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That costume...
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...is my most favorite.
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In the past, I didn't like the way it was sewed by the Embroidery House
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and even personally sewed it stitch by stitch.
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I don't want those anymore.
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I don't what them all!
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Just leave this one behind, okay?
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I guarantee that I won't sing
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or dance.
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From now on, I would just keep these clothes away.
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I won't bring them out anymore.
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Just let me keep them, okay?
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Gugu Liu.
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I will forever remember this favor from you.
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Your Highness Noble Consort, don't. I can't bear such treatment.
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As a noble consort, you had to imitate those commoner opera performers.
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It caused the atmosphere in the palace to get corrupted
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and even the lost of one life. Empress Dowager almost got sick from anger.
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Tell me, can these dark and messy items be allowed to stay?
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Not only must they be disposed of, anyone who dares to dress up and play around from now on
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would be like this opera costume,
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be careful of inviting fire and burning yourself.
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Her Highness still refused to eat.
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What did we do wrong?
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It was clearly Noble Consort who made a set up to harm people.
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Now that we're able to turn the table around, why are we being blamed?
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You're still talking. Her Highness has such an amiable personality,
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but now, she's angry.
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Tell me then, why is she mad?
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Not only is she not minding us, she won't even eat.
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We must know why she's mad, so we can cure the problem.
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Look. You also don't know.
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You still have the nerve to come?!
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What rotten idea you suggested, causing Her Highness to suffer in your stead.
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Miss Zhilan, everything was my fault.
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Can you allow me to see Her Highness?
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Her Highness will never see you again. Just leave.
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Miss Zhilan! Miss Zhilan!
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[Chuxiu Palace]
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What is she doing?
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She seems to be praying to the gods.
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Wrong. She's paying respect to Her Highness Empress.
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Your Highness Empress is like the deities in heaven,
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beautiful, dignified, and kind.
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However, deity is angry today.
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I then came to pray to her.
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My deity guide mortals like me.
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Please tell us what did we do wrong.
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Suck up.
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What suck up?
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Even if we did do something wrong,
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may deity be benevolent and magnanimous to forgive all of us.
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From now on, we surely will be careful with our words and actions, and will not make any more mistakes.
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I'm not Chang'eh, so why are you imitating Diandang?
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Your Highness Empress, so you also know the story of Chang'eh from the book "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio"?
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Chang'eh imitated the four great beauties to have some fun.
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You learned that.
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Diandang was mischievous and caused troubles. She then burned incense to ask for forgiveness. You also copied that.
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I think you're about to become an immortal.
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Your Highness!
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Your Highness, you're not mad anymore?
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Tell them to come in too.
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Your Highness, you can be mad at us,
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but you mustn't skip your meal.
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If you harm your health, we would have committed a great sin.
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I'm not blaming you.
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I'm blaming myself.
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Aren't you all curious
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why after I got married,
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I became very traditional and very cautious.
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Because a woman must take up the duty of bearing children and educating them,
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attending to one's in-laws, and managing one's household.
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If you indulge in singing and dancing all day,
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in enjoying the pleasures of life,
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that would bring disaster to your husband and to clan.
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In ancient times, you have Zhao Feiyan and Yang Yuhuai,
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who even though have beauties that can turn a state upside down,
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because of acting frivolous
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and immoral, they kept being criticized by the succeeding generations.
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Without an outstanding beauty, would the empire really last forever?
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In my opinion,
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it is exactly because there are true beauties
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that fake heroes are exposed.
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Whenever an empire meets its downfall,
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they would either blame it to treacherous evil subjects or to seductive consorts bringing disasters to the nation.
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Why don't they say that the bed is too soft, the shoes are too bent,
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they were in a bad mood, hence, they lost the empire.
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You...
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Full of unreasonable logic and you still say it as if you're so right.
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I'm the empress. I then must act in a dignified manner, be cautious with my words and actions.
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That way, I can be an model for all the six palaces.
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But I actually have forgotten proper decorum.
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I started to linger on the happiness and freedom I had before I was married.
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I put on the fairy dress of River Goddess Luo and started dancing an inappropriate dance.
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It caused the whole palace to start imitating and destroyed the proper palace atmosphere.
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Hence, a huge disaster like this happened.
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Your Highness, this clearly was a mistake of Noble Consort Gao.
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No. It's my fault.
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It's me who committed a mistake first,
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and gave her an opportunity to use it.
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Tell me, is today just about the lost of one life?
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Did those two palace maids refuse to admit what they've done,
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and insist that it was an accident?
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Yes.
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Just to pacify the anger of Empress Dowager, the Office of Careful Punishment
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had them caned 50 times and then sent to the Workhouse.
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Aren't all this matter a result
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of me portraying as Goddess Luo?
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Your Highness.
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You really think Empress Dowager didn't see through it?
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She just didn't want to expose me
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and left me some dignity.
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If this matter would happen again,
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what face do I have to continue holding the position of the empress?
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But Your Highness Empress was so happy when you dressed up as the goddess.
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- Are you willing—
- As a woman,
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we can't break new ground and defend our country.
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I can only manage well the six palaces.
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Free the emperor from any unnecessary worries.
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This is the only thing that I can do
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for the country and the citizens.
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Doing my best to fulfill the duty of an empress
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is more important than winning the favor of His Majesty.
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Yingluo, thank you.
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But I'm the empress of the Qing Dynasty.
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Don't ever forget that.
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Main Madam, the rules.
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Your Highness Noble Consort!
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What's the use of kneeling?
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Even if you bleed from kneeling, I won't pity you.
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Whenever I see you, I would remember my lost treasures.
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Leave. Stay as far away as possible.
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Your Highness Noble Consort, I kept disappointing you and is indeed ashamed to return.
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But I've knelt here and reflected on my actions all night.
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After thinking about it, I'm to blame for belittling my enemies.
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An evil dog is an evil dog.
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But Your Highness, if a person would lower down herself to the level of a dog, that's truly being silly.
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To deal with a dog, just one meat is enough.
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I think you've become crazy from kneeling.
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You're starting to spout crazy words.
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Your Highness!
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Your Highness, any person has a weakness. As long as she desires something,
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let's not be afraid of not catching her weakness.
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Your Highness, by that time,
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wouldn't she still end up being ordered around by you?
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What you mean is...
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...to let that bad dog work for me?
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Yes.
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What are you doing?
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Your Highness Noble Consort.
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Your Highness Noble Consort, may I know why you had me come here?
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Momo Zhang, I heard that Wei Yingluo is your disciple.
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Noble Lady Shu, you're joking.
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Wei Yingluo indeed stayed in the Embroidery House for some time.
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I'm the gugu who is directly in-charge of the Embroidery House.
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Technically, we can be said to have a teacher-disciple relationship.
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But in reality, we don't have any direct relationship.
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Now, she already has made connections with the Changchun Palace.
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The more she won't put any importance on me anymore.
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Momo Zhang, when you speak, you really don't leave anything out.
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Too bad, when a goose passes, it will always leave marks.
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If we don't have any bit of evidence, we wouldn't have tracked you.
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Noble Lady Shu, what really do you want to say?
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I'm confused.
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Wei Yingluo was born among the Booi of the Plain Yellow Banner.
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She has a father and a sister.
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Her sister's original name was Wei Yingning.
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Since it's the same as the name of Noble Consort, it was you
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who personally changed her name to A'Man.
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A'Man got expelled out of Forbidden City for breaking palace rules.
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Afterwards, she hanged herself. In less than 3 months,
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Wei Yingluo entered the palace and became your favored disciple.
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Tell me, isn't that too coincidental?
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- Noble Lady Shu—
- You must know
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that since I'm able to investigate the background of Wei Yingluo,
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I then know about yours too.
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Noble Lady Shu, my parents are both dead.
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I'm the only one left in my family.
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All my live, I've served the Forbidden City.
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There's nothing to investigate about.
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Momo, maybe because you're old, you tend to forget things.
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What? You even forgot your own older brother?
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You...
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That older brother of yours
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is currently living at...
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...the main street outside Yongding Gates.
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Too bad, he left too early.
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He only left one descendant.
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And all your savings
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were being used to support that child.
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Your Highness Noble Consort.
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Your Highness Noble Consort, that child
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is only 6 years old. He doesn't know anything.
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I beg Your Highness Noble Consort...
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I beg you to let him go.
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I beg you.
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You're an old personnel of the palace.
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And you have been attentive to your duty.
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As long as you told me everything you know,
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of course, I will not treat you badly.
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Sister Yingluo, what instructions do you have for me?
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This is Empress's informal dress.
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The collar here needs adjustment.
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Don't worry, Sister. We will tend to it now and get it delivered to Changchun Palace by noon.
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Where's Supervisor Zhang?
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Empress has more instructions.
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Supervisor Zhang never came to the embroidery house.
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She is always up at Tiger Hour (3-5am) and starts work at Rabbit Hour (5-7am).
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Even when she's sick she would exert herself to check the embroidery house.
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How can she be absent?
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Perhaps she's gravely ill?
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Let me go see.
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Sister Yingluo.
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Supervisor Zhang.
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Yingluo.
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What brings you here?
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Are you alright?
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I thought you were sick. I was about to come see you.
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I did have a cold earlier but I'm well now.
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Really?
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Silly girl. Why would I lie to you?
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Look. I'm perfectly fine.
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Your cold is recovered.
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But your leg joint pain, you need to take care of it.
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Don't think it's now so it's nothing.
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When the winter comes, the pain will start again.
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Last time I made the knee pads for you but they are too thick for use now.
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Tomorrow I will make another pair of thin ones.
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Alright then. Yingluo, I've got work piled up.
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I need to go and busy myself. You go back first.
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Yingluo.
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You need to watch out at Changchun Palace too.
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Supervisor, you seem very strange today.
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Did something happen?
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I'm old so I nag a lot. Hurry and go back too.
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Wei Yingluo.
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Do you want to know about A'man's death?
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Tonight at midnight, come to Chuxiu Palace alone. Remember.
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If the words get out,
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you can count on never learning the truth.
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Chuxiu Gate
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Greetings to Noble Consort
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and Noble Lady Shu.
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Wei Yingluo.
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I was just making bets with Noble Lady Shu about whether you'd dare to come.
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Allow me to be bold and ask.
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Did you win, Noble Consort.
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Or did Noble Consort Shu win?
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I always hate a sharp tongue.
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Especially you.
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You ruined so many of my great plans.
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But today you can come alone to Chuxiu Palace.
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I admire your guts too.
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I am easily scared.
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Before coming to Chuxiu Palace, I left a letter.
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If I am not back in two hours,
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then I seek Empress to come fetch me.
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Stop your tongue wagging here.
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I summoned you here today
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to have you meet someone.
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Come on in.
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Who is he?
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I am Xiao Zhangzi, a junior sweeping eunuch of Imperial Garden.
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Tell us what you saw the night of the first tenth day of the first month.
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That night, His Majesty was entertaining the royal clansmen at Qianqing Palace.
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Imperial Garden's supervisors were all loafing and went to play cards.
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Only I was on guard duty.
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Later, I heard a movement at the rock garden so I sneaked over.
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What did you see?
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I saw . . .
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Let go of me.
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Let me go.
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Save me. Let go.
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Let go of me.
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Why didn't you save her?
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I didn't dare.
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That person. Who was it?
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I don't dare to say.
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Say it.
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I will be your justice.
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It was Fuheng. It was Fuheng.
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You heard that clearly, right?
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The one that raped A'Man was Fuheng.
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Are you nuts? Is this funny?
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A great story you knotted.
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You mean, we are telling you a story to deceive you?
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My sister's incident. My goal of coming into the palace.
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Supervisor Zhang is most aware of it.
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She is a always assiduous but she was missing in the morning.
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If she were sick and couldn't get out of bed, that's understandable.
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But her footsteps are light and no sign of illness.
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But her speaking was evasive and concealing, and stop and go.
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Isn't that strange?
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Wei Yingluo, you are so suspicious.
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You admit?
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Noble Consort summoned Supervisor Zhang that day.
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It was only to ask a couple of questions.
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You found out from her my secret.
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So you want to use this to frame Fuca Fuheng.
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Force me to be a pawn of Chuxiu Palace.
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Wei Yingluo.
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You thought the evidence was just one jade pendant?
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What do you mean?
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Bring it out.
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Later, I picked up this.
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This court band.
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It was by the rock garden. He probably left in such a haste,
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that he didn't attend to it.
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Go on.
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Yes.
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Fuca Fuheng.
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If it's just a jade pendant,
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it could be just a coincidence.
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But even his cour band is here.
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This is a personal item of a first ranking guard.
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Can't be that this is also a coincidence?
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Fuheng ruined A'Man's chastity.
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And the upright and virtuous Empress.
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In order to protect her own brother's reputation,
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she chased that pitiful palace maid out of the palace.
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Even so, she still didn't feel at ease.
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If this palace maid went out and talked unruly, it would affect the Fuca reputation.
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So for the guaranteed security, she . . .
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Enough.
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Look at you. I haven't said anything.
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You're already shaking in anger.
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But I do understand.
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You put in so much effort to enter the palace.
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It was all to find the enemy that murdered your sister.
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But in the end?
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You yourself became the best sword in your enemy's hand.
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Devoting yourself to her cause and putting yourself to shield danger from her.
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That pair of pretentious sister and brother,
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Maybe they are laughing at you behind your back.
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Saying you're such a fool to acknowledge the criminal as your master.
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Noble Consort. You're telling me this secret.
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What exactly do you want me to do?
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Empress is most versed in putting on a tranquil pose.
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She used her upright and virtuous looking face,
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to deceive the entire world to ascend to empress seat.
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Now, the truth is out.
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I hope you can renounce the dark and join the light.
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Work for me.
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How?
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Empress fooled and deceived you.
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Don't you want a revenge?
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Just put this in Empress's daily food and beverage.
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And you can kill her without even the ghosts aware.
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00:33:09,940 --> 00:33:11,450
You want to me kill the empress with poison?
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What? You're scared now?
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00:33:14,620 --> 00:33:16,570
Or maybe . . .
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You never wanted to seek revenge for your real sister A'Man.
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Of course I do.
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So then, Yingluo, this empress is Fuheng's biggest dependence.
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In order to cover up for her own brother, she didn't spare to kill A'Man.
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But poor A'Man. First she loses her virtue and chased out of the palace.
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Then at last, she was strangled to death.
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All these misfortunes.
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All done by Empress and her brother.
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But you remain compassionate and soft like this?
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Take it.
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Wei Yingluo. This is the final chance I give you.
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I hope you don't disappoint me.
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For A'Man. And for yourself.
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Think about it clearly.
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Yingluo, I tell you once again.
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I, Fuheng, do not engaged in harm and immorality. I never have.
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Guard Fucha.
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Yingluo.
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You're here, Young Master. I'll go report to Empress.
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Hey. What's wrong?
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00:36:09,680 --> 00:36:12,090
You're the first one to run up and greet him usually.
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He's not waiting to see me so why should I go seek boredom?
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Didn't you see? Where his eyes were?
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- Zhenzhu.
- What are you doing here?
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I came to see how the tea preparation is going.
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It's almost done.
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Yesterday, Empress ate an extra sachima.
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She feels it was too much.
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Today, present pu'er tea.
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Pu'er? Which pu'er?
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Yunan's tribute. Gourd tea.
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As for Guard Fuca,
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he usually loves tieguanyin from Anxi.
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The biluochun you prepared isn't to his accustom.
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00:37:19,450 --> 00:37:21,660
How do you know?
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00:37:21,660 --> 00:37:26,380
Not only do I know that Guard Fuca likes to drink tieguanyin tea from Anxi,
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I also know Consort Chun lates drinking milk tea.
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She likes jasmine tea from Suzhou.
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00:37:32,280 --> 00:37:37,860
Consort Xian used to like enshiyulu, but now she likes biluochun.
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What about His Majesty then?
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His Majesty?
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He won't let you decipher what he likes or dislikes.
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But from my seeing,
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it seems the dragon well pleases the royal mind the most.
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Of course, it depends also on His Majesty's mood.
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If you find him unhappy today,
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forget the dragon well, even if you present a bejeweled nectar,
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you will be misfortuned regardlessly.
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Hurry and teach me how you figured.
491
00:38:05,200 --> 00:38:10,530
Every time a guest comes, look at the tea cup they used and you'll know.
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00:38:12,240 --> 00:38:16,440
You should go and check on the snacks in the kitchen now.
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I'll wait for you and we'll prepare the tea together.
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Alright.
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Greetings to Consort Chun.
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Pardoned.
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00:38:49,240 --> 00:38:53,550
Are you here to see Empress, Consort Chun? Her Highness is holding an audience with Guard Fuca.
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I will go and report it first.
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00:38:56,460 --> 00:38:59,830
Since Guard Fuca is in the main hall, there's no need.
500
00:38:59,830 --> 00:39:03,250
I will return first and come back after noon.
501
00:39:03,250 --> 00:39:04,730
Yes.
502
00:39:44,520 --> 00:39:46,640
Didn't I tell you?
503
00:39:46,640 --> 00:39:49,260
Don't frequent Changchun Palace if nothing is the matter.
504
00:39:49,260 --> 00:39:52,940
His Majesty gave you a decree of mercy but that's not for you to waste recklessly.
505
00:39:53,590 --> 00:39:57,590
Don't worry, Sister. This time, it was Mother asking me to come.
506
00:39:57,590 --> 00:40:00,200
She prayed for a peace charm from Huguo Temple
507
00:40:00,200 --> 00:40:02,360
She asked me to bring it to you no matter what.
508
00:40:04,180 --> 00:40:08,160
Yingluo. Help me fetch my fan.
509
00:40:08,160 --> 00:40:09,710
Yes.
510
00:40:11,720 --> 00:40:13,970
Mother is too much.
511
00:40:13,970 --> 00:40:17,060
From Longfu Temple to Guanghua Temple to Huguo Temple.
512
00:40:17,060 --> 00:40:20,350
Is she bent on going to all the temples,
513
00:40:20,350 --> 00:40:22,710
and pray for peace charms?
514
00:40:23,460 --> 00:40:26,730
For your sake, even if Mother wears out her legs,
515
00:40:26,730 --> 00:40:28,860
she does so willingly.
516
00:40:32,110 --> 00:40:34,550
I think not just for me though.
517
00:40:34,550 --> 00:40:38,600
Probably for you, for a match.
518
00:40:40,060 --> 00:40:42,630
Matches are set by God. I believe . ..
519
00:40:42,630 --> 00:40:45,800
Maybe God has already delivered my fated match to me.
520
00:40:59,470 --> 00:41:03,420
Consort Chun, what are you doing?
521
00:41:03,420 --> 00:41:06,640
You should ask, Your Highness, what she is trying to do.
522
00:41:08,300 --> 00:41:12,270
What do you mean by that, Consort Chun?
523
00:41:12,270 --> 00:41:15,970
Noble Consort Gao, in order to win royal favor, she exhausts in seeking medicine to scent her body.
524
00:41:15,970 --> 00:41:19,590
Everyday she takes a pill, not just to scent her body,
525
00:41:19,590 --> 00:41:22,930
even the clothing she's worn and the room she's stayed in
526
00:41:22,930 --> 00:41:24,970
are all extremely fragrant.
527
00:41:24,970 --> 00:41:28,960
In order to prevent others to snatch her favor, she bans the palace personnel from copying her.
528
00:41:28,960 --> 00:41:30,690
Wei Yingluo,
529
00:41:31,700 --> 00:41:34,650
why do you have this scent on you?
530
00:41:45,010 --> 00:41:48,680
Consort Chun, maybe . . .
531
00:41:48,680 --> 00:41:51,080
She got it on her unconsciously?
532
00:41:51,080 --> 00:41:54,800
Your Highness, you and I see Noble Consort Gao daily.
533
00:41:54,800 --> 00:41:57,570
But we never contracted the fragrance.
534
00:41:57,570 --> 00:41:59,730
Only one possibility.
535
00:41:59,730 --> 00:42:01,930
You went to Chuxiu Palace.
536
00:42:01,930 --> 00:42:04,690
And you stayed there for quite some time.
537
00:42:05,190 --> 00:42:09,600
Because the incense burner in Chuxiu Palace fumigates the same fragrance.
538
00:42:09,600 --> 00:42:12,120
And it doesn't dissipate.
539
00:42:12,120 --> 00:42:14,460
Now, Changchun Palace and Chuxiu Palace are in discord of water and fire.
540
00:42:14,460 --> 00:42:17,620
Wei Yingluo, why did you go to Chuxiu Palace?
541
00:42:23,250 --> 00:42:27,290
Yingluo. You should say something.
542
00:42:28,840 --> 00:42:33,310
She has nothing to say. I smelled her scent earlier,
543
00:42:33,310 --> 00:42:35,000
I wasn't sure,
544
00:42:35,000 --> 00:42:38,460
so I had Yuhu go and search her room.
545
00:42:39,860 --> 00:42:42,010
And I found this.
546
00:42:44,750 --> 00:42:46,720
What is this?
547
00:42:47,330 --> 00:42:50,810
The medicine pouch containing strong poison. It's empty.
548
00:42:50,810 --> 00:42:54,800
I am certain that the tea earlier, if you had drank it,
549
00:42:54,800 --> 00:42:57,010
you'd be dead immediately.
550
00:43:00,970 --> 00:43:02,510
Yingluo.
551
00:43:03,330 --> 00:43:05,520
I don't trust words of others.
552
00:43:05,520 --> 00:43:10,610
You tell me yourself. Do you wish to kill me?
553
00:43:16,500 --> 00:43:23,920
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554
00:43:44,790 --> 00:43:52,230
♫The Forbidden Palace's walls surround them, feeling like a good place to reside.♫
555
00:43:52,230 --> 00:43:59,620
♫As the walls sever the setting sun's rays, they lose their past dreams as it grows cold.♫
556
00:43:59,620 --> 00:44:07,150
♫Decaying leaves cover the neglected shuttered window, that remembers the cold winds of twenty harvests.♫
557
00:44:07,150 --> 00:44:13,430
♫ Knowing only how to go with the flow and pass the years.♫
558
00:44:13,430 --> 00:44:16,220
♫Unmarried and hopeful, the heavy, dark gates are locked, ♫
559
00:44:16,220 --> 00:44:20,890
♫Cultivated and proud, gem-like beauties, and yet somehow♫
560
00:44:20,890 --> 00:44:23,700
♫Flowers who stay may endure breakage, causing them ask to change their karma♫
561
00:44:23,700 --> 00:44:29,120
♫Can not an empty branch give them a carefree place to rest upon?♫
562
00:44:29,120 --> 00:44:36,490
♫Longing to be together with him, separated as the illumination in the western window declines,♫
563
00:44:36,490 --> 00:44:43,710
♫At leisure to be melancholy, also perplexed and worried about it all.♫
564
00:44:43,710 --> 00:44:51,270
♫Who will pity her, and record her lifetime full of misery?♫
565
00:44:51,270 --> 00:44:58,560
♫A pretentious, showy vision on a stage.♫
566
00:44:58,560 --> 00:45:06,040
♫Longing to be together with him, separated as the illumination in the western window declines,♫
567
00:45:06,040 --> 00:45:13,360
♫At leisure to be melancholy, also perplexed and worried about it all.♫
568
00:45:13,360 --> 00:45:20,810
♫Who will pity her, and record her lifetime full of misery?♫
569
00:45:20,810 --> 00:45:27,260
♫A pretentious, showy vision on a stage.♫
570
00:45:28,190 --> 00:45:37,950
♫A pretentious, showy vision on a stage.♫